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HAIR OURLING DEVICE. No. 352,022. Patented Nov. 2, 1886 5AM Y ??i-f- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

KATIE A. WILLIAMS, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

HAIR -CURLING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 352,022, dated November 2, 1886.

Application filed July 19, 1886.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, KATIE A. WILLIAMS, of Providence, in the State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hair-Curling Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a device for producing Montague curls in the hair; and it consists of a spool the barrel of which is provided with an outwardly-projecting spur or spurs, and in the combination of the same with a retaining-band, as hereinafter fullyset forth.

Figure 1 is an edge view of the spool. Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same, taken in the line :0 w of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side View of the spool and the retaining-band. Fig. 4 is an edge View of the same.v Fig. 5 is an edge View of the retaining-band separate from the spool. Y

In the accompanying drawings, A is the spool upon which the hair is to be wound, consisting of the barrel B and the heads 0 O,

which may be preferably made of sheet metal, the barrel B being provided with one or more projecting spurs, D, two being shown in the drawings.

In forming the curl the lock of hair is first passed between the heads of the spool and caught over the holding-spur D. Then the proper rotation of the spool will roll the lock of hair into an involute spiral form, in which it is to be held until sufficiently set to retain its spiral condition after its removal from the spool. The application of a heated iron to the head of the spool will serveto hasten the setting of the curl.

When the lock of hair to be curled is wound Serial No. 208,491.- (No model.)

closely upon the spool, it may, if necessary,

be securely held in its rolled-up condition by means of an ordinary hair-pin made to embrace the spool and to pass through the adjoining hair of the head; or the band E, made of a strip of sheet metal or wire bent in L] form, the ends of the said strip being provided with the supplemental inward bends, a a, adapted to clasp the edges of the heads of the spool, as shown in Fig. 4, may be employedfor the purpose of securing the spoolfirmly and preventing the hairfrom unwinding.

Heretofore in the production of Montague curls it has been the practice to wet the hair with a solution of gum-tragacanth or a similar'gum solution called bandoline, and after rolling the prepared lock in the fingers into the proper involute spiral form the same was pasted onto the forehead and tied down with a cloth to keep it in place; but when the curls are so made the fine powdery substance formed by the breaking of the dried gum produces the appearance of dandruff and is very disagreeable, and the application of the gum solution tends to injure the hair.

I claim as my invention- 1. The hair-curling spool consisting of the barrel, the heads, and the holding spur or Witnesses:

SOGRATES SoHoLFIELD, JOHN S. LYNCH. 

